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Sunday, 15 December 2019

Financial Times

• Eddie Stobart: Cautionary tale of company that grew too fastTrucking group failed to keep control of cash flow as it expanded rapidly

The Guardian

• If the Brexit debate is over, the car industry’s problems are just beginningPolitical certainty in Westminster does little to ease the threat to big employers – many of which are in Tory seatsBoris Johnson’s hefty majority may have changed the game in parliament, but manufacturers could be forgiven for withholding their judgment. Nothing has changed, to coin a phrase: a hard-Brexit threat still looms over any company that exports to the EU or beyond.Carmakers are at the forefront of the continuing uncertainty amid an investment freeze and a slump in manufacturing – even as the race towards electric power heats up. Car manufacturing at British factories has fallen by 1...

Other Regional Press

• Retro photos capture Kent's first motorwayAs drivers get used to a new £104m motorway junction, we take a trip down memory lane with a series of retro M20 photos.